Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

This page shows stories whose rank on the Hacker News front page is significantly lower than their raw rank, indicating that they have been penalized by Hacker News moderators. See this blog post for a discussion of how Hacker News applies penalties. Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms

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TV Garden (tv.garden)

×4.16 59 | 750 points by vkdelta 4 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI 2027 (ai-2027.com)

×8.22 74 #80 | 122 points by Tenoke 4 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
2025 Recession Indicators Hit Fashion and Wall Street at Once (marieclaire.com)

×3.59 77 #81 | 67 points by herbertl 1 hour ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windows debloat script made by Microsoft (github.com/microsoft)

×4.83 55 #71 | 32 points by homebrewer 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Critics suspect Trump's weird tariff math came from chatbots (arstechnica.com)

×6.89 73 | 13 points by cratermoon 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MCP Server to let agents control the browser (github.com/Skyvern-AI)

×8.77 44 | 13 points by suchintan 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world (politico.com)

×6.31 28 | 291 points by mdhb 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

×6.49 25 #42 | 1752 points by dang 1 day ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture (reuters.com)

×4.66 63 #65 | 47 points by mfiguiere 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cursor's one-click deploy for multiplayer games (container.inc)

×4.07 57 | 7 points by lentinidante 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Taco Bell parent Yum Brands partners with Nvidia to speed up use of AI (cnbc.com)

×1.58 60 | 7 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database (opennutrition.app)

×2.09 25 #34 | 256 points by joshdickson 6 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
France Eyes US Big Tech in EU Retaliation to Trump's Tariffs (bloomberg.com)

×3.22 47 | 6 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans (techcrunch.com)

×2.96 55 | 6 points by pera 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bill Gates on first OS he wrote: 'Code remains the coolest I've ever written' (fortune.com)

×3.31 53 | 6 points by CharlesW 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU (bbc.com)

×10.42 20 #32 | 1645 points by belter 23 hours ago | 3054 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly (isomorphism.xyz)

×2.96 21 #35 | 240 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oracle Tells Clients of Second Recent Hack, Log-In Data Stolen (bloomberg.com)

×4.15 65 | 6 points by decimalenough 37 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vector Sets are part of Redis (antirez.com)

×2.95 30 | 5 points by rjtavares 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Many Programming Languages Can You Name? (name-languages.vercel.app)

×2.26 36 | 4 points by arvindh-manian 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Git.kernel.org and lore.kernel.org now require proof of work (kernel.org)

×2.16 40 | 4 points by Aissen 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Effects of the front page on a non-profit

×3.54 18 | 13 points by mooreds 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Pulls Back on Data Centers from Chicago to Jakarta (bloomberg.com)

×2.27 43 | 4 points by gnabgib 51 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat (wsj.com)

×2.42 16 #40 | 95 points by Bostonian 7 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Novanode, Global load balancing with Caddy, no vendor lock-in

×1.01 17 #38 | 63 points by martianE 5 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
European Commission takes aim at end-to-end encryption (therecord.media)

×3.71 71 | 6 points by janandonly 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia Adds Native Python Support to CUDA (thenewstack.io)

×1.75 32 | 3 points by p4ul 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PC prices up at least 15%: Trump Tariffs may hurt U.S. system integrators most (tomshardware.com)

×1.89 35 | 3 points by cokext30 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Owl, a Spaced Repetition App (owl.cards)

×2.35 19 | 4 points by fredoliveira 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Best books written on “How to think”?

×1.83 15 | 5 points by r_singh 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On JavaScript's Weirdness (stack-auth.com)

×1.68 24 | 3 points by n2d4 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AnimeJs v4 Is Here (animejs.com)

×7.53 11 #14 | 318 points by adrianvoica 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What do you do in the army? – How a peacetime army spends its time (militaryrealism.blog)

×1.59 21 | 3 points by baud147258 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015) (reactormag.com)

×3.32 8 | 324 points by MPSimmons 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365 (techradar.com)

×4.47 8 #60 | 398 points by bentobean 1 day ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cross-Language Infra Components: Solving the Infrastructure Abstraction Problem (pulumi.com)

×1.67 14 | 3 points by meagan-pulumi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Haystack Code Reviewer – Guided Tours for Pull Requests (haystackeditor.com)

×3.90 9 | 7 points by akshaysg 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US tourist arrested for landing on forbidden Indian tribal island (theguardian.com)

×2.55 46 | 3 points by n1b0m 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad? (annehelen.substack.com)

×3.13 6 #63 | 259 points by moonka 22 hours ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001) (wisc.edu)

×3.52 4 #88 | 896 points by tux3 2 days ago | 398 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Porting Tailscale to Plan 9 (tailscale.com)

×2.63 4 #72 | 353 points by adriangrigore 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Chip-8 emulator written in JavaScript (github.com/victorqribeiro)

×0.61 4 #64 | 35 points by atum47 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Build Your Own Security Lake – Open-Source OCSF Converters to S3 (github.com/Santiago-Labs)

×1.49 6 | 3 points by ethanblackburn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nix Ninja – open-source Ninja-compatible build system for Nix (github.com/pdtpartners)

×2.69 3 | 23 points by hinshun 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT Due to AI (dutchosintguy.com)

×1.63 5 | 3 points by walterbell 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reasoning models don't always say what they think (anthropic.com)

×2.38 3 #4 | 236 points by meetpateltech 3 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo (gitmcp.io)

×1.30 3 #8 | 48 points by liadyo 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America's astonishing act of self-harm (ft.com)

×3.35 54 | 3 points by helloworld 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Space Debris: Is It a Crisis? (esa.int)

×1.11 1 #55 | 57 points by defrost 9 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???